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Patented Sept. 9, I902. E. T. NOBLE.

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EDWARD T. NOBLE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 708,578, dated September 9, 1902.

Application filed March 8, 1901.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD T. NOBLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ohicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Boxes, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

This invention relates to improved means for holding the cover of a boxin partly-open position, so as to expose the contents, and is particularly applicable to boxes in which ware or merchandise, such as cigars, is intended to be exposed for sale.

Heretofore various deviceshave been employed for holding the covers of boxes in partly-open position, among which may be mentioned a flexible tie, as a short piece of chain, between the body portion of the box and the cover; also, devices in the nature of turn-buttons secured to the cover at the hinge side thereof and intended to form a brace, against which the cover may rest when partly open.

The object of my invention primarily is the provision of a device of the class specified which shall have greater strength or less tendency to injure the hinge than such prior devices as I have referred toand which shall also be very cheap to construct.

In the accompanying drawings, in which I have illustrated my invention in preferred form, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a box having my invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the box with the cover closed. Fig. 3 is an enlarged view in section, showing a detail of the construction. Fig. l is a View of a box in perspective, showing a modification of my invention. Fig. 5 is an enlarged detailed view of the modification shown in Fig. 4:. Fig. 6 is an enlarged view of a corner of the box made in accordance with the form shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, and Fig. 7 is an enlarged partial view of a corner of the box with the invention applied as shown in Figs. 4 and 5.

In carrying out my invention I attach the cover 8 to the body portion 9 by means of a hinge 10, preferably of cloth and extending the full length of the box, as is the common practice in the manufacture of cigar-boxes,

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of adhesive material to the Wood of the cover and body portion. Upon the outside of the hinge 10, either on the body portion 9 or the cover 8, I attach a stop-strip 11, formed, preferably, of wood and extending approximately the full length of the box, secured to the hinge by means of some adhesive material and having a substantially prismatic shape, the end of the prism being preferably triangular, as shown, whereby the prismatic surface 12 affords a plane against which the edge of the cover 8 may abut when it is in inclined open position, as shown in Fig. 1. As I have shown in Figs. 4, 5, and 7, the stop-strip 11 can, if preferred, be cemented to the edge of the cover itself but I prefer the construction shown in the other figures, as tending to impart greater strength.

It is a known fact, which has probably been observed by most smokers, that when. a box full of cigars is lifted out of a case in which a number of them are placed in close contact, with the covers partly open, by taking hold of the cover it sometimes happens that the hinge breaks away from the box and allows the contents to fall out, this being due to the fact that as ordinarily constructed such boxes will be lifted by the cover when the cover stands straight out from the rear side of the box just in position to exert a pull upon the cloth hinge, which is best calculated to cause the adhesive material to yield and allow the hinge to be separated from the body of the boxorthe edge of the cover, as the case may be. In the practice of my invention, as I have'found by careful experiment, this difficulty does not occur, since the pull upon the cloth hinge is more at an angle, and therefore not so liable to effect a separation of the hinge from the body of the box. Thusfll find that not only does the stop-strip employed by me perform the function of efiectually holding the cover in inclined open position for display purposes, but it also permits the box to be lifted by means of the cover without danger of spilling out the contents.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A box comprisingabody p'0rtion,a cover, a hinge, and a stop-strip attached in position to hold said cover in inclined open position,

said stop-strip affording a plane against which the edge of the cover abuts when in such in olined open position, substantially as described.

2. Aboxcomprisingabody portion,acover, a cloth hinge, attached to said box and cover, a stop-strip attached outside said hinge, in position to hold said cover in inclined open position, said stopstrip affording a plane against which the edge of said cover abuts when it is in inclined open position, substantially as described.

3. A box comprising a body portion,a cover, a flexible hinge, and a stop-strip attached by cementation outside said hinge in position to hold said cover in inclined open position, substantially as described.

4. A box comprising a body portion,a cover, a cloth hinge, secured to said body portion and said cover by cementation, and a stopstrip cemented to said hinge upon the outside of the box, in position to hold said cover in partly open position, substantially as described.

EDWARD T. NOBLE. Witnesses:

ARTHUR E. HULL, PAUL SYNNESTVEDT. 

